”On the one hand, it’s politically impossible to stop growth. On the other hand, it’s biophysically impossible to continue it ad infinitum. So, which impossibility is fundamentally impossible?”

– Herman Dalyformer World Bank senior economist

”The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth’s living systems are the overwhelming facts of our existence.”

– George MonbiotGuardian columnist

”The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.”

– Richard Branson

”If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but new programs.”

– Daniel Quinnauthor: Ishmael and The Story of B

”Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

– Kenneth Bouldingeconomist

”Continual increases in population and consumption cannot continue forever on a finite planet.”

– Richard Heinberg

”If the world is saved, it will be saved by people with changed minds, people with a new vision. It will not be saved by people with the old vision but new programs.”

– Daniel Quinnauthor: Ishmael and The Story of B

”A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.”

– Paul Samuelsoneconomist

”Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

– Edward Abbey

”Our economic activity is at war with the planet.”

– Naomi Klein

”We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it.”

– Paul Hawken

”In the short term, we must realize that we have better ways to create jobs and build the economy than holding an everything must go sale on our precious resources.”

– Dr. David Suzuki

”As I see it, humanity needs to reduce its impact on the Earth urgently and there are three ways to achieve this: we can stop consuming so many resources, we can change our technology and we can reduce the growth of our population.”

– Sir David Attenborough

”There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.”

– Mahatma Ghandhi

”You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”

– Paul Ehrlichauthor: The Population Bomb

”You don’t have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.”

– Paul Ehrlichauthor: The Population Bomb

”We can’t frack our way back to economic prosperity; nor can we unplug a coal plant, plug in a solar panel, and go on expanding population and consumption.”

– Richard Heinberg

”We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children.”

– Joe Rommphysicist

”In today’s full world, resources are not only scarce but have become the limiting factor”

– Herman Dalyformer World Bank senior economist

”Our economic activity is at war with the planet.”

– Naomi Klein

”I have – over the last five years – quite rapidly become a Malthusian. I have been won over by the data, and I have been won over by the logic of the math.”

– Jeremy Granthaminvestment strategist

”This is not about whales anymore. It’s about us.”

– Thomas Friedman

”We’ve globalized an utterly untenable economic model of hyperconsumerism. It’s now successfully spreading across the world, and it’s killing us.”

– Naomi Klein

”The free-market fundamentalists will tell you that more growth, more stuff and 9 billion people going shopping is the best we can do. They’re wrong. We can be more. We can be much more.”

– Paul Gildingauthor: The Great Disruption

”Who’s gonna stand up and save the Earth? Who’s gonna say that she’s had enough?”

– Neil Young

”Population is the multiplier of everything we do wrong.”

– Dr. Martha M. Campbell

”At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.”

– Paul Hawken

”There will inevitably come a time that the society drastically needs to change the way it interacts with the environment, or it will lose its coherence.”

– Sander van der Leeuw

Over-Consumption

HUMAN IMPACT = POPULATION X RESOURCE INTENSITY

Since human population has indeed exceeded the carrying capacity of the Earth, then it’s imperative we work to reduce our individual impact while seeking a sustainable population. Join us in further examining this issue on the filmmaker’s blog. These subjects are also being explored marvelously at postgrowth.org.